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Patronage and the Social and Cultural Status of the Artist - Twentieth Century - Collectors and critics

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How did artists make a living in the twentieth century?

They created works according to their own expressive and compositional decisions, which then were purchased by collectors. Therefore, these collectors enhanced the artists' status and fortunes, but they did so based on what critics thought of the artists.

How did Jackson Pollock rise to his fame before dying at the age of 44?

With the help of critic Clement Greenberg and Peggy Guggenheim, collector of Cubist and Surrealist art who was very famous for being a female collector. Guggenheim can be considered Pollock's patron, as she commissioned a mural from him. At the same time, Greenberg hailed his work and called him the 'greatest painter of the age'.

How can Jackson Pollock's work be considered to be really true to its medium?

Because he basically dripped his paint from the can on the canvas without attempting to create a certain outcome. It was considered abstract expressionism.